Curriculum Vitae
Main Papers in Refereed Journals
I am doing research in the Extragalactic Astrophysics Group of Prof. Bodo Ziegler.
I have been for a while a member of the
COSMOS team, and a core member of the
zCOSMOS team.
More recently, I became a member of the
VLT-CLASH and of the LoCuSS teams, and our extragalactic group started a collaboration with the HSC SSP team by obtaining KMOS spectroscopic follow-up.
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Teaching, Recent Talks, Observing Programs and Publications
July 2020 Poster The quenching of galaxies in clusters from z=1.5 to z=0.1 as traced by their gas-phase metallicities at the EAS 2020 conference, S14, Quenching cluster galaxies in the cosmic middle ages
JANUARY 2020 PUBLICATION: B. I. Ciocan, C. Maier, B. L. Ziegler, & M. Verdugo, CLASH-VLT: Enhancement of (O/H) in z=0.35 RXJ 2248-4431 cluster galaxies, 2020, A&A, 633, A139 , based on master thesis of B.I. Ciocan, supervised by C. Maier and B. Ziegler
January 2020 Publication: Boehm, A., ... C. Maier, et al., Kinematics of disk galaxies in (proto-)clusters at z=1.5, 2020, A&A, 633, A131
November 2019 Publication: Caminha, G.B., ... C. Maier, et al., Strong lensing models of eight CLASH clusters from extensive spectroscopy: accurate total mass reconstructions in the cores,2019, A&A, 632, A36
November 2019 Talk given by B. Ciocan based on Ciocan, Maier et al. (2020, A&A, 633, A139) , CLASH-VLT: Enhancement of O/H in z~0.35 RX2248-4431 cluster galaxies , at the conference The art of measuring galaxy physical properties , Milan, 2019
July 2019 Poster Cluster star formation quenching probed by gas metallicity at the conference Tracing Cosmic Evolution with Clusters of Galaxies, Sesto, Italy
JUNE 2019 PUBLICATION: C. Maier, M.Hayashi, B. L. Ziegler, & T. Kodama, Cluster induced quenching of galaxies in the massive cluster XMMXCSJ2215.9-1738 at z~1.5 traced by enhanced metallicities inside half R200, 2019, A&A, 626, A14
June 2019 Online E-Thesis Master Thesis of Bianca-Iulia Ciocan, with her Master Thesis "The slow quenching of CLASH RXJ2248-4431 cluster galaxies as traced by their gas phase metallicities" supervised by B. Ziegler and C. Maier
June 2019 Publication: Mignoli, M., ... C. Maier, et al., Obscured AGN at 1.5 < z < 3.0 from the zCOSMOS-deep Survey I. Properties of the emitting gas in the Narrow Line Region,2019, A&A, 626, A9
MAY 2019 Talk Slow-then-rapid quenching and strangulation of cluster galaxies at z~0.2 and z~1.5 as traced by enhanced metallicities at the workshop Metals in Galaxies, Near and Far: Looking Ahead
JANUARY 2019 PUBLICATION: C. Maier, B. L. Ziegler, C. P. Haines, & G.P. Smith, Slow-then-rapid quenching as traced by tentative evidence for enhanced metallicities of cluster galaxies at z~0.2 in the slow quenching phase, 2019, A&A, 621, A131
Dec 2018 Talk Slow-then-rapid quenching of cluster galaxies as probed by LoCuSS, and by KMOS at z~1.5 at the conference KMOS at 5: Star and Galaxy Formation in 3D
24-31 Aug 2018 Poster Cluster star formation quenching probed by gas metallicity at the XXXth General Assembly of the International Astronomical Union
Aug 2018 Publication: Lee, K.-G., ... C. Maier, et al., First Data Release of the COSMOS Lyman-Alpha Mapping And Tomography Observations: 3D Lyman-alpha Forest Tomography at 2.05 < z < 2.55, 2018, ApJS, 237, 31
Jul 2018 Publication: Krolewski, A., Lee, K.-G., ... C. Maier, et al., Detection of z~2.3 Cosmic Voids from 3D Lyman-alpha Forest Tomography in the COSMOS Field, 2018, ApJ, 861, 60
May 2018 Oral presentation Quenching timescales of massive LoCuSS cluster galaxies and their delayed-then-rapid quenching awarded for the conference Birth, life and fate of massive galaxies and their central beating hearts
9 Jan 2018 Talk of my master student: The slow quenching of CLASH RXJ2248-4431 cluster galaxies traced by their gas phase metallicities at the Forschungsseminar
7 Nov 2017 Talk: DESPACITO: Slow quenching in LoCuSS cluster galaxies as probed by their chemical enrichment and by their star formation at the seminar Current topics for galaxies
2nd Oct 2017 Start of supervising Master Thesis of Bianca Ciocan, The slow quenching of CLASH RXJ2248-4431 cluster galaxies traced by their gas phase metallicities
Aug 2017 Master Thesis of Nadja Lampichler, supervised by B. Ziegler and C. Maier, on astro-ph arXiv:1707.09838
July 2017 Invited Talk about Metals and Quenching in Galaxies and in Dark Matter Halos, at the workshop In and Out. What rules the Galaxy Baryon Cycle? MIAPP Garching, Germany
June 2017 work in progress Paper: C. Maier et al., 2017, Strangulation and quenching timescales revealed by the HI gas content, metallicities and SFRs of LoCuSS cluster galaxies, first results here
May 2017 Master Thesis Exam of Nadja Lampichler, with her Master Thesis "Kinematics of zCOSMOS field galaxies up to z~1" supervised by B. Ziegler and C. Maier
Apr 2017 Publication: A. Puglisi, E. Daddi, ... C. Maier, et al., The Bright and Dark Sides of High-Redshift starburst galaxies from Herschel and Subaru observations, 2017, ApJ, 838, 18
Jan 2017 Publication: D. Kashino, J. D. Silverman, ... C. Maier, et al., The FMOS-COSMOS survey of star-forming galaxies at z~1.6. IV: Excitation state and chemical enrichment of the interstellar medium, 2017, ApJ, 835, 88
Dec 2016 Observations Priority A KMOS observations at VLT awarded : Galaxy kinematics and star formation properties of galaxies at the onset of cluster assembly (z ~ 1.5)
Oct 2016 Talk: Strangulation of cluster galaxies as seen by their chemical enrichment and HI gas content and quenching timescales at the conference The galaxy life-cycle. From activity to quiescence, and back, across cosmic time, Venice, Italy
MAY 2016 PUBLICATION: C. Maier, U. Kuchner, B. L. Ziegler, M. Verdugo, et al., CLASH-VLT: Strangulation of cluster galaxies in MACSJ0416.1-2403 as seen from their chemical enrichment, arXiv:1602.00686, 2016, A&A, 590, A108
Oct 2015 - May 2016 Supervisor of Bachelor Thesis: Spectral Analysis of Intermediate Redshift Galaxies
Sep 2015 Talk: Chemical evolution of star-forming galaxies in Locuss, Clash and Mahalo clusters up to z~1.6 at the conference In the Footsteps of Galaxies: Tracing the Evolution of Environmental Effects, Soverato, Italy
June 2015 Talk (given by Bodo Ziegler): Metallicity evolution in clusters and the field out to z=2.5 at the EWASS, La Laguna, Spain, 2015
May 2015 Publication: C. Maier, B. L. Ziegler, S. J. Lilly, et al., Mass-metallicity relation of zCOSMOS galaxies at z ~ 0.7, its dependence on SFR, and the existence of massive low-metallicity galaxies, 2015, A&A, 577, A14
Mar 2015 - May 2015 Astronomical Laboratory Exercises Astronomisches Anfaengerpraktikum (SS 2015)
Jan 2015 Observations 3 Nights with FMOS at the Subaru telescope : Z(M,SFR) at z>2 and the existence of the fundamental metallicity relation
Before 2015:
Sep 2014 Talk: The existence and universality of the fundamental metallicity relation of star-forming galaxies in CLASH clusters at z~0.4 at the Evolving Galaxies in Evolving Environments conference, Bologna, Italy
Sep 2014 Publication: C. Maier, S.J. Lilly, B. L. Ziegler et al. The mass-metallicity and fundamental metallicity relations at z>2 using
VLT and Subaru near-infrared spectroscopy of zCOSMOS galaxies, 2014, ApJ, 792, 3
Aug 2014 Proceedings: Oxygen abundances of zCOSMOS galaxies at z~1.4 based on five lines and implications for the fundamental metallicity relation , for the
IAU Symposium 309 : Galaxies in 3D across the Universe, Vienna, Austria; arXiv:1408.5896
Jul 2014 Talk: The mass-metallicity and fundamental metallicity relations at z~1.4 using VLT-SINFONI near-infrared spectroscopy of zCOSMOS galaxies at the
IAU Symposium 309 : Galaxies in 3D across the Universe, Vienna, Austria
Jun 2014 Observations 3 NIGHTS FMOS at Subaru telescope awarded : Z(M,SFR) at z>2 and the existence of the fundamental metallicity relation
May 2014 Talk: COSMOS-CLASH: The existence and universality of the fundamental metallicity relation at z<2.5 and environmental effects, at the
Multiwavelength-surveys: Galaxy Formation and Evolution from the early universe to today, Dubrovnik, Croatia
Mar 2014 - Jun 2014 Astronomical Laboratory Exercises Astronomisches Anfaengerpraktikum (SS 2014)
Feb 2014 Observations PI of Subaru program S14A-003 (FMOS observations 11/12 February): The mass-metallicity and fundamental metallicity relation at z>2
Oct 2013 - Jan 2014 Lecture Giant black holes and their host galaxies (WS 2013)
Sep 2013 Talk: A VLT-SUBARU synergy to establish the mass-metallicity relation of main sequence galaxies at z<2.5, at the
Galaxy Evolution over Five Decades, Cambridge, UK
Sep 2013 Publication: Lisa Kewley, Christian Maier et al. The Cosmic BPT Diagram: Confronting Theory with Observations, 2013, ApJ, 774, 10
May 2013 Talk: A VLT-SUBARU synergy to establish the mass-metallicity relation of main sequence galaxies at z>2, at the
COSMOS Team Meeting Kyoto 2013
Mar 2013 - Jun 2013 Lecture Galaxy Evolution (SS 2013)
Mar 2013 - Jun 2013 Astronomical Laboratory Exercises Astronomisches Anfaengerpraktikum (SS 2013)
Dec 2012 Observations 15 hours VLT-SINFONI awarded, rank A, service mode observations, for P91 (starting in April 2013) : The evolution of the mass-metallicity and fundamental metallicity relation from reliable SFRs, masses and metallicities of zCOSMOS galaxies at z ~ 1.4
Oct 2012 - Jan 2013 Lecture Giant black holes and their host galaxies (WS 2012)
Sep 2012 Publication Perez-Montero, E., Contini, T., Lamareille, F., Maier, C. et al., The cosmic evolution of oxygen and nitrogen abundances in star-forming galaxies over the last 10 Gyrs, 2013, A&A, 549, 25
Jun 2012 Invited Talk The evolution of the mass-metallicity
relation at 0 < z < 2.5 revealed by
near-infrared spectroscopy at
Metals in Tuscany 2012
Mar 2012 - Jun 2012 Lecture Galaxy Evolution (SS 2012)
Apr 2012 Talk at
Metals in 3D: New insights from Integral Field Spectroscopy, Granada, 2012
Mar 2012 - Jun 2012 Astronomical Laboratory Exercises Astronomisches Anfaengerpraktikum (SS 2012)
Oct 2011 - Jan 2012 Seminar for master and doctoral students Galaxy Evolution
Talk at the COSMOS meeting, Honolulu, Hawaii, USA
Talk at the
COSMOS meeting, Matsuyama, Ehime, Japan
Curriculum Vitae
Education:
| 1994: | Abitur, mark : 1.2 _ very good, Konstanz, Germany
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| 1994 - 1999: | study of physics at the University Heidelberg
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| 1998 - 1999: | Diploma thesis: (Abstract), at Landessternwarte Heidelberg, Germany
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| July 1999: | Diploma in Physics, University Heidelberg
(mark : very good)
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| 1999 - 2002: | Ph.D thesis:
Emission Line Galaxies from CADIS: High Redshift Lyman-Alpha Galaxies and Metal Poor Galaxies at Medium Redshift
2002PhDT.........2M,
in Max-Planck-Institut für Astronomie Heidelberg, Germany
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| 4th December 2002: | PhD in Astronomy (mark : magna cum
laude), University Heidelberg, Germany, Laudatio
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Employment:
| 1998 - 1999 | Landessternwarte Heidelberg
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| 1999 - 2003 | Max-Planck-Institut für Astronomie, Heidelberg
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| 2003 - 2011 | Institute of Astronomy, ETH Zürich
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| 2007 - 2011 | Research Team Leader (ETH "Ober-Assistent"), zCOSMOS data manager
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| since Oct 2011 | University of Vienna, Department of Astrophysics
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As the zCOSMOS data manager I have been responsible for the
data handling of the 600 hours of zCOSMOS raw VIMOS data from ESO and
preparing them for processing. My main research interests include
Evolution of the Star Formation in Galaxies
Evolution of the Metallicity in Galaxies
Morphological
Evolution of Galaxies
Role of AGNs and Environment on Galaxy Evolution
Galaxy Surveys
Lyman Alpha Emitters at High Redshifts
Previously Awarded Scientific Programs with Large Telescopes
PI of program 084.B-0232 SINFONI at the VLT,
Chemical evolution:
metallicities of vigorously star-forming galaxies at z ~ 2.3,
37 hours in service mode
PI of program 084.B-0312 ISAAC at the VLT,
Establishing the
evolutionary status of candidates low-metallicity luminous galaxies
at z ~ 0.7,
23.5 hours in service mode
PI of program S09B-013 MOIRCS at the SUBARU telescope,
Chemical evolution:
metallicities of vigorously star-forming galaxies at z ~ 2.3,
2.5 nights in visitor mode
PI of program 085.B-0317 ISAAC at the VLT,
Establishing the role of
ENVIRONMENT on METALLICITIES of galaxies at 0.5 < z< 0.7,
23.5 hours in service mode
Selected Papers
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Peng, Y., Lilly, S. J., ..., Maier, C. et al.,
Mass and environment as drivers of galaxy evolution in SDSS and zCOSMOS and the origin of the Schechter function, 2010,
ApJ, 721, 193
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Maier, C., Lilly, S.J., Zamorani, G. et al., The Dependence of Star Formation Activity on Stellar Mass Surface
Density and Sersic Index in zCOSMOS Galaxies at 0.5 < z < 0.9 Compared with
SDSS Galaxies at 0.04 < z < 0.08, 2009, ApJ, 694, 1099
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Silverman, J. D., Lamareille, F., Maier, C. et al.,
Ongoing and co-evolving star formation in zCOSMOS galaxies hosting
Active Galactic Nuclei, 2009,
ApJ, 696, 396
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Lilly, S. J., Le Brun, V., Maier, C. et al., The zCOSMOS
10k-bright spectroscopic sample, 2009, ApJS, 184, 218
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Caputi, K. I, Lilly, S. J., Aussel, H., Le Floc'h, E., Sanders, D., Maier, C. et al., The
optical spectra of Spitzer 24 microns galaxies in the COSMOS field: II. Faint
infrared sources in the zCOSMOS-bright 10k catalogue, 2009,
ApJ, 707, 1387
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Maier, C., Lilly, S.J., Carollo, C. M. et al.,
Oxygen Gas Abundances at z~1.4: Implications for the Chemical Evolution History of Galaxies,
2006, ApJ 639, 858
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Maier, C., Lilly, S.J., Carollo, C. M. et al.,
Near Infrared Spectroscopy of 0.4 < z < 1.0 Galaxies: Oxygen Abundances,
SFRs and Dust,
2005, ApJ, 634, 849
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Maier, C., Meisenheimer, K., and Hippelein, H.,
The metallicity-luminosity relation at medium redshift based on faint CADIS emission line galaxies,
2004, A&A, 418, 475
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Maier, C., Meisenheimer, K., Thommes, E. et al., Constraints to the
evolution of Lyman-Alpha bright galaxies between z=3 and z=6,
2003, A&A, 402, 79
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Hippelein, H., Maier, C., Meisenheimer, K. et al.,
Star Forming Rates between z=0.25 and z=1.2 from the
CADIS Emission Line Survey,
2003, A&A, 402, 65
Conferences 2004 - 2008
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Maier, C., Lilly, S.J., and zCOSMOS Team, Poster presented at
"When the Universe formed Stars: Understanding the Most Active Period
of Star Fomation in the History of the Universe Down to its Fall", November, 2008,
Martinique, France
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Maier, C., and zCOSMOS Team, Proceedings of the
first Subaru International Conference: "Panoramic Views of Galaxy
Formation and Evolution", Hayama, Japan, December, 2007: The Evolution
of the Star Formation of zCOSMOS Galaxies at z<0.7 as a Function of
Mass and Structural Parameters,2008,
ASPC, 399, 231, astro-ph/0901.0921
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Maier, C., Lilly, S.J., Carollo, C. M.,
Meisenheimer, K., Hippelein, H., and Stockton, A., Poster presented at
"Galaxies and Structures through Cosmic Times", 2006, Venice
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Maier, C., Lilly, S.J., Carollo, C. M., Proceedings contribution for "The Fabulous Destiny of Galaxies; Bridging Past and Present", 2005, Marseille:
Oxygen Gas Abundances at 0.4 < z < 1.5: Implications for the Chemical Evolution History of Galaxies,
astro-ph/0509114
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Maier, C., Lilly, S.J., Carollo, C. M., Proceedings contribution for "Starbursts: From 30 Doradus to Lyman Break Galaxies", Cambridge, UK, 6-10 September 2004:
Oxygen abundances, SFRs and dust of CFRS galaxies at intermediate redshift,
2005sdlb.procP..43M
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Link to ADS
published papers
